Alive with the Glory of Love
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| Single by Say Anything from the album …Is a Real Boy |
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| B-side | "We Will Erase All Life on Earth But Us" | ||||
| Released | August 3, 2004 | ||||
| Format | 7", Digital download, CD | ||||
| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Length | 4:15 | ||||
| Label | Doghouse J |
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| Writer(s) | Max Bemis | ||||
| Producer | Tim O'Heir, Stephen Trask | ||||
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"Alive with the Glory of Love" is the first single off of Say Anything's second album …Is a Real Boy. An "Intense and oddly uplifting rocker about a relationship torn by the Holocaust", the song is actually semi-biographical in nature telling about songwriter and vocalist Max Bemis's grandparents who were Holocaust survivors. It talks about their lives in the ghetto, in hiding, and in the camps. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bemis said: "I thought about what it would be like to be in love and be separated from the person you love, because these times are just as dire in a way. Anything can happen, in a war and terrorist attacks and cynicism and all these actors who oppose love."
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[edit] Music video
The music video goes between shots of the band playing in front of a tree and a preteen boy who is sleeping in what we are to believe is a camp. During the night the boy wakes up fully dressed, and equipped with a flashlight sneaks out of his bunk. At the same time, a girl in another bunk also awakes and steals off into the night. Running out of the camp he descends a flight of stairs while his female companion sneaks out of her cabin. Numerous official looking guards enter both former cabins doing a bed check, and upon finding the empty beds, the lead guard in the female cabin blows a whistle waking up the entire camp, suggesting that this is something other than an ordinary summer camp. All the lights are turned on throughout the camp including large spotlights on towers illuminating the scene while the guards spread out with flashlights. Both continue to run through the woods separated from each other while the guards follow until they reach a large chain link and barbed wire fence. Upon reaching the fence and realizing their situation, they kiss and become "alive" while lights from the other side of the fence illuminate the scene. Escaping through a gap they come upon the band playing to a small crowd. As the guards continue to search now accompanied by a German Shepherd both the boy and girl easily blend in with the rest of the crowd. As the band continues to play they crowd surf and when the guards arrive they find a closed gate with no trace of either the children or the band.
[edit] Track listing
7" record
- "Alive with the Glory of Love" - 4:15
- "We Will Erase All Life on Earth but Us" - 3:42
Digital single
- "Alive with the Glory of Love" - 4:02 (Radio Edit)
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[1] | 28 |
[edit] Trivia
- "Alive with the Glory of Love" is also featured in the professional snowboarder Marco Smolla's section on the DVD Prediculous.
- "Alive with the Glory of Love" is also featured in the Scrubs episode "My Point of No Return".
- The video for "Alive with the Glory of Love" is shown playing on a television in Bridge to Terabithia in the Aarons family's house.
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